what the fuck?
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
95 year old man hits a train
A 95-year-old driver apparently ran a red light and collided with a Metro light-rail train in Phoenix around Wednesday, authorities said.
Phoenix police said the man was driving a 2003 Ford sedan and heading west on Washington Street when he attempted to turn south onto 34th Street and was struck from behind by the train. There was an 82-year-old female passenger in the car at the time. No one was injured. The driver was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure.
The driver was cited for failure to obey a traffic control device.
Traffic and the light-rail service were disrupted for about 5 to 10 minutes, light-rail officials said.
So, two questions I have... Around Wednesday? Like maybe it was Monday or Tuesday? And am I the only one who feels this is just natural selection? If you are senile/dumb enough to hit a train or get hit by one, you fucking deserve it.
Phoenix police said the man was driving a 2003 Ford sedan and heading west on Washington Street when he attempted to turn south onto 34th Street and was struck from behind by the train. There was an 82-year-old female passenger in the car at the time. No one was injured. The driver was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure.
The driver was cited for failure to obey a traffic control device.
Traffic and the light-rail service were disrupted for about 5 to 10 minutes, light-rail officials said.
So, two questions I have... Around Wednesday? Like maybe it was Monday or Tuesday? And am I the only one who feels this is just natural selection? If you are senile/dumb enough to hit a train or get hit by one, you fucking deserve it.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Phoenix girl, 17, gets 3 years prison in prostitution case
A 17-year-old Phoenix girl was sent to prison Thursday for running a child-prostitution ring that recruited and pandered girls as young as 14.
Jazmine Finley, whom a judge called the ringleader of the prostitutes, was sentenced to three years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised probation. Last month, her accomplice, Tatiana Tye, 16, was sentenced to three years of supervised probation.
Finley and Tye met at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix.
According to court reports, the two girls worked as prostitutes themselves and recruited as many as five other girls to work for them, promising them that they would not beat them up like male pimps. They also arranged trysts for which the girls were paid as little as $50 to perform sex acts.
They were arrested in February after a five-month investigation by Phoenix Police.
Tye was allowed to plead guilty to one count of pandering. Finley pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit child prostitution and attempted child prosecution.
Finley apologized to the court for her actions. Her defense attorney explained that she had obtained her GED certificate and had a baby while in jail awaiting resolution of her case. Her parents attended court with the newborn infant.
Sounds like an entertainment value to me. The girls should be applauded rather than punished.
Jazmine Finley, whom a judge called the ringleader of the prostitutes, was sentenced to three years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised probation. Last month, her accomplice, Tatiana Tye, 16, was sentenced to three years of supervised probation.
Finley and Tye met at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix.
According to court reports, the two girls worked as prostitutes themselves and recruited as many as five other girls to work for them, promising them that they would not beat them up like male pimps. They also arranged trysts for which the girls were paid as little as $50 to perform sex acts.
They were arrested in February after a five-month investigation by Phoenix Police.
Tye was allowed to plead guilty to one count of pandering. Finley pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit child prostitution and attempted child prosecution.
Finley apologized to the court for her actions. Her defense attorney explained that she had obtained her GED certificate and had a baby while in jail awaiting resolution of her case. Her parents attended court with the newborn infant.
Sounds like an entertainment value to me. The girls should be applauded rather than punished.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
METRO SHMETRO
I'm a native of Phoenix, I've seen it through its best and its worst, and right now Phoenix is at a crossroads and can make some choices that really affect it's future.
ASU Downtown Campus is open, and housing more than 500 students. The public is paying for a 1.4 billion dollar light rail system. The new convention center is about to open, and hold conventions larger than this city has ever seen. It is a crucial time for the city of Phoenix, and the whole region in general. Phoenix also has the highest DUI rate in the region, so I pose the question, don't we have a gigantic opportunity here?!
Rick Simonetta, the head train guy with METRO announced that the hours for the train operation would be 4-12 M-Sun, 4 being when the train leaves the first station, and 12 being when it reaches the end of the line. You would think with the levels of DUIs in the city, they would see the opportunity to possibly curb that and run the train later, to accommodate last call. One would think that with the ASU campus being full of kids going to and from tempe, they would want to accommodate that late night schedule. I would also guess that conventioneers and late night workers could take advantage of the later hours. They had a meeting scheduled today at 9AM, open to the public, so I went to see what was going on.
Rick Simonetta spoke first, indicating that they were open to changing special event and weekend hours to later times but that was it. The cost of running trains until 2AM on friday and saturday nights.... 350K per year. Every time someone mentioned staying open later, Mr. Simonetta threw up a roadblock, so it is obvious to me he does not have the same interests in mind as the rest of us.
There were arguments made that it would lower the cost of enforcing DUIs, would raise business levels at local shops and restaurants. Perhaps the best argument was made by a girl named Kimber, who brought it to our attention that lots of visitors would skip downtown Phoenix all together if they knew they would have a ride there, but no ride home back to the burbs. That actually got Vice Mayor thinking.
The city leaders are going to look at costs involving cost to run the rail, cost of connecting busses, and cost of dial a ride (ada requirement that it run the same hours as the rest of the system) and cost of security involved along with labor. The economic benefit of this could easily make or break the added cost or running the system. I vote for it, as much as it costs I think it could weight out nicely.
ASU Downtown Campus is open, and housing more than 500 students. The public is paying for a 1.4 billion dollar light rail system. The new convention center is about to open, and hold conventions larger than this city has ever seen. It is a crucial time for the city of Phoenix, and the whole region in general. Phoenix also has the highest DUI rate in the region, so I pose the question, don't we have a gigantic opportunity here?!
Rick Simonetta, the head train guy with METRO announced that the hours for the train operation would be 4-12 M-Sun, 4 being when the train leaves the first station, and 12 being when it reaches the end of the line. You would think with the levels of DUIs in the city, they would see the opportunity to possibly curb that and run the train later, to accommodate last call. One would think that with the ASU campus being full of kids going to and from tempe, they would want to accommodate that late night schedule. I would also guess that conventioneers and late night workers could take advantage of the later hours. They had a meeting scheduled today at 9AM, open to the public, so I went to see what was going on.
Rick Simonetta spoke first, indicating that they were open to changing special event and weekend hours to later times but that was it. The cost of running trains until 2AM on friday and saturday nights.... 350K per year. Every time someone mentioned staying open later, Mr. Simonetta threw up a roadblock, so it is obvious to me he does not have the same interests in mind as the rest of us.
There were arguments made that it would lower the cost of enforcing DUIs, would raise business levels at local shops and restaurants. Perhaps the best argument was made by a girl named Kimber, who brought it to our attention that lots of visitors would skip downtown Phoenix all together if they knew they would have a ride there, but no ride home back to the burbs. That actually got Vice Mayor thinking.
The city leaders are going to look at costs involving cost to run the rail, cost of connecting busses, and cost of dial a ride (ada requirement that it run the same hours as the rest of the system) and cost of security involved along with labor. The economic benefit of this could easily make or break the added cost or running the system. I vote for it, as much as it costs I think it could weight out nicely.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Shaq
I don't understand the Lakers, they kept the grumpy one and traded the happy one. Shaq is the shit.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Miller Lite taste test
Sitting in a bar having a margarita, two very attractive chicas approach me. Obviously they are not approaching me for the reason I want it to be, well maybe not THE reason, but offering a dude free beer is a good consolation. They asked me what I usually drink and I said Coors or Bud light, and never Miller Lite. So, she had poured two cups of rando-beer and had me first smell them and say which one I would rather drink and the miller light did smell better (I could tell which was which) but the Bud Light tasted wayyyy better, and much less like warm vomit. She got mad when I said Miller tastes that way, but whatever, I got free beer from a hot blonde and proved that BL is better than ML
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